Cmhl Mental Health Practitioner - Chichester, United Kingdom - Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

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Chichester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you want to part of supporting professionals and young people to develop their approaches to mental health and emotional wellbeing?

If so, a role with The Community Mental Health Liaison Service (CMHL) might be what you're looking for.

The CMHL Service key functions:

1) To provide an early intervention and prevention service for professionals who are working with children and young people who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties

2) To support professionals to develop their skills in managing the emotional well-being of children and young people

3) To offer some direct work using an evidence based approach to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health concerns.

4) To be part of the broader West Sussex stepped care approach through groupand individualinterventions.

As the service covers all of West Sussex you will be required to travel across the county.

The Community Mental Health Liaison team comprises of a range of professionals including Mental Health Practitioners, Mental Health Nurses, Mental Health Social Workers and Occupational Therapists.

The service works with professionals and parents/carers offering consultation, psycho-education and some direct work to young people.

There are opportunities in the service to undertake direct work with children, young people and their families through brief evidence-based therapeutic interventions.

The service will be adopting a stepped care approach which will also offer group interventions linking in with the wider West Sussex services and pathways.

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working.

We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide.

Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else.

If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC.

Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results:

70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

You will need a Professional qualification, with evidence of continuing professional development, in a field relevant to Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Desirable Requirements

It would be an advantage if you have experience working with children and young people with mental health difficulties
- See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details*